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That billboard thing is pretty scary. I know where those billboards are and they're so high up.

And as for that clinical trial thing, there's apparently been an increase in people signing up for trials - it seems that people didn't realise how well paid they are! This kind of reaction is incredibly rare though, though there have been some issues raised about giving all the men the drugs at teh same time - at least if they'd been done one at a time only the poor first guy would have been affected. The thing is, they just don't know how to treat them properly because the drug is such an unknown quantity

Soozy wrote:That billboard thing is pretty scary. I know where those billboards are and they're so high up.

i looked at the pic and thought "hey.. isnt that yonge and dundas?" and then read and it was :O

Me too

Brokeback author gets pissy:

http://articles.news.aol.com/special3/a ... =AOLMOV001

LOS ANGELES (March 14) - Annie Proulx, whose 1997 short story inspired the film "Brokeback Mountain," has penned a scattershot blast in a British newspaper unleashing her anger over the film's best-picture Oscar loss.

Proulx criticizes Oscar voters and the Academy Awards ceremony in the 1,094-word rant, which appeared in Saturday's issue of The Guardian, a liberal paper boasting 1.2 million readers daily.

The best-picture Oscar went to "Crash," which focuses on race relations in Los Angeles.

Academy members who vote for the year's best film are "out of touch not only with the shifting larger culture and the yeasty ferment that is America these days, but also out of touch with their own segregated city," Proulx writes.

The 70-year-old Pulitzer-prize winning author points out that "Brokeback," which was nominated for eight Academy Awards, was named best picture at the Independent Spirit Awards one day before the March 5 Oscars.

"If you are looking for smart judging based on merit, skip the Academy Awards next year and pay attention to the Independent Spirit choices," Proulx advises.

She even lashes out at Lionsgate, the distribution company behind "Crash."

"Rumour has it that Lionsgate inundated the academy voters with DVD copies of Trash - excuse me - Crash a few weeks before the ballot deadline," Proulx writes.

She decries the "atmosphere of insufferable self-importance" inside the Kodak Theatre, the Oscars site, and describes the audience as a "somewhat dim LA crowd." The show, she writes, was "reminiscent of a small-town talent-show night."

"Clapping wildly for bad stuff enhances this," Proulx writes.

She notes that "Brokeback's" three Oscar wins, for original score, adapted screenplay and direction for Ang Lee put it "on equal footing with King Kong."

When Jack Nicholson announced "Crash" as the best-picture winner, "there was a gasp of shock," Proulx writes.

"It was a safe pick of `controversial film' for the heffalumps," she writes, using the elephant-like "Winnie the Pooh" character to describe academy voters.

"For those who call this little piece a Sour Grapes Rant," Proulx concludes, "play it as it lays."

Calls by the Associated Press to Proulx's Wyoming home and her literary agent, Elizabeth Darhansoff, were not immediately returned Tuesday



I chuckled whilst reading that. Talk about a sore loser eh?

woah! Annie Proulx wrote Brokeback Mountain??

EDIT: i haven't seen Crash or Brokeback, so i can't really say anything intelligent.

wow, someone's a little bitter.

wow, she's extremely bitter. Yikes! But that made me laugh... thanks for sharing

Crap Bag is here to serve ma'am.

See, brokeback was good, but it was dry in parts. She seems to think the story is the only part that is worth judging in a film, when really it isn't true at all. Acting, Cinematography, Directing, and computer design come into play also, and Crash beat Brokeback for simply being a better overall film. By the sounds of it, she wanted it to win as a token film about gay cowboys.

TOKYO (AFP) - A Japanese-led research team said it had made a seeing, hearing and smelling robot that can carry human beings and is aimed at helping care for the country's growing number of elderly.

Government-backed research institute Riken said the 158-centimeter (five-foot) RI-MAN humanoid can already carry a doll weighing 12 kilograms (26 pounds) and could be capable of bearing 70 kilograms within five years.

"We're hoping that through future study it will eventually be able to care for elderly people or work in rehabilitation," said Toshiharu Mukai, one of the research team leaders.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20060314/lf ... stylejapan

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That thing looks more like a cartoon character than a robot. In fact, in some odd way, it reminds me of the Stay Puff Marshmellow Man.

Cos that's not... terrifying.... at all.... no...

If I was an elderly lady and that thing came and picked me.... I think I would die of fright

GAH! I think I'd think I was hallucinating if it came after me.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/ ... ional/home

I'm all out of words for these types of stories

I'm so digsuted.

America isn't the only one....

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somalia_Af ... dane_Arone

Too bad we don't have one of those nice Heritage minutes on this...

Canada sucks. We pretend to be good but we're just as bad as everywhere else.

Matchee and Brown were arrested and charged with the murder and the Canadian Forces' National Defence Headquarters were advised.

The commander of the 2nd commando and a number of his subordinate supervisors were court-martialed and found guilty under article 124 of the National Defence Act (Negligent Performance of Duties).

Kathy14 wrote: http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20060314/lf ... stylejapan

<img src="http://us.news3.yimg.com/us.i2.yimg.com ... mpdtWTVQ--">

ha, that is SO japan.